Food Aid

Is our approach to food aid about to undergo a major transformation?  From the NY Times: The food aid initiative, agreed upon at the Group of 8 summit meeting, is intended to transform traditional aid to poorer countries beyond simply donated produce, grains and meats to assistance building infrastructure and

Well, maybe not the final word, but one more thing anyway, from a Bloomberg article: Shipments of U.S. food aid took five months to reach Ethiopia during a famine in 1999-2000, arriving after the death toll had reached 20,000, according to Chris Barrett, an economics professor at Cornell

I mentioned the Bush Administration's food aid proposal a few days ago.   So what did the Farm Bill -- passed with a veto-proof majority -- do with the issue?  According to Reuters: U.S. lawmakers unveiled a five-year global food aid plan on Thursday, snubbing White House demands

A proposal from President Bush on food aid: As America increases its food assistance, it's really important that we transform the way that food aid is delivered. In my State of the Union address this year, I called on Congress to support a proposal to purchase up to

The debate on food aid in the agriculture talks is getting interesting beyond the substantive economic issue of the extent to which ostensibly benevolent food aid can/does cause "commercial displacement" in aid-recipient countries. It is becoming, in potentia, another interface between the WTO and non-WTO international organizations.